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Optical resolution of 1-arylethanols using transesterification catalyzed by lipases
1Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. kkano@mail.doshisha.ac.jp
Enantiomer
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The enantioselective transesterification of various 1-arylethanols with vinyl acetate catalyzed by lipases has been studied in benzene. The phenyl, pyridyl, naphthyl, quinoryl, anthryl, phenanthryl and pyrenyl groups were used as the aryl groups. Amongst various lipases examined, the lipase from Candida antarctica (lipase CAL) is the best catalyst which shows high enantioselectivity and low substrate specificity.